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You may be thinking of Spolsky: ‘As a programmer, thanks to plummeting memory prices, and CPU speeds doubling every year, you had a choice. You could spend six months rewriting you…

I suspect they haven't taken those photos yet.

Your hiding it doesn't help though... your Facebook email address is >@facebook.com I don't see anyway to keep that secret.

Sounds like someone found Dan Pink's lecture: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

I think you are mistaken on the "Holding the phone isn't the problem;" (mental distraction seems correct though) I suggest a quick test for you: 1) Grab the edge of your display li…

This marks the end of all my "Hello World!" first programs; replaced by "goodbye, dad\n"

Of all the tributes, this is the one that brought a tear to my eye. I worry that the long hours and extraordinary commitment to our craft may not be worth the sacrifices we make. T…

re: brand appearance... http://hackaday.com/2011/08/11/how-to-put-your-logo-in-a-qr-...

I took my two boys to a launch because I knew the end was near. STS-125 the first and last time two shuttles were prepped to launch at the same time: Hubble makes the ISS unreachab…

Michael Caine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddUbsWnEVXM Powerful stuff.

Jon Udell had a very interesting article recently on a related topic: http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/10/23/a-literary-appreciation-... Jon's particular slant was reading the comment…

A whole bucket might chill the oil sufficiently to reduce the risk... But I can tell you a single ice cube does make a mess, and a lot of noise. First the cube sinks, so you won't …

Let's just start with the simple fact cable quality does matter when working with HDMI. I'm not here to argue about the price of one manufacturer versus another, or their relative …

And I.

Me please! mike_agar@hotmail.com Thanks.

Carmack or Michael Abrash? Read Graphics Programming Black Book ( http://www.amazon.com/Michael-Abrashs-Graphics-Programming-S... ) Abrash did amazing things with assembly to get Q…

Let's set the stage here, as I'm sure most will be expecting a nice motivating pitch about why you should quit your job. My purpose here is to find a way to keep one of our bright …

one more for this thread: http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/

http://addagram.mytestbench.com/ I too have played with that one, but I used JavaScript... These problems are engaging enough to keep you interested, especially when you are trying…

I doubt very much that Jobs is underestimating the effort or the risk. This is more likely the Apple response to why an iPhone? Look, if the COTS chips within the iPhone are availa…

I've maintained for a long while that MS is weaker without Gates. From all I've read, it was clear that Bill had a strong leadership role in the technical domain, and his influence…

That's one heck of a magic number... The strangest one I've seen is the fast sqrt() function in SGI OpenGL source code: there's a magic step where a right bit shift is applied to a…

Who visits Hacker News and doesn't know that "Dennis Ritchie" is the R in "K&R"?

I can't help but think that there are better ways to backup your code. Once you give it to an online service, you give up total control over how that data is handled. Your code is …

You sir, hit the nail on the head! We need the exact opposite: enter a regex pattern, and a sample string... then fire up a similar GUI to tweak the expression until it's working a…